{"id":166320,"date":"2026-10-28T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/28\/weils-new-ai-summer-program-has-one-small-problem-weils-future\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:34:03","slug":"weils-new-ai-summer-program-has-one-small-problem-weils-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/28\/weils-new-ai-summer-program-has-one-small-problem-weils-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Weil\u2019s New AI Summer Program Has One Small Problem: Weil\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe that to be a great lawyer that is AI-enabled someone needs to have deep technical history. Anyone who wants to learn this stuff\u2014sufficient enough to be an advanced AI builder as a lawyer\u2014can do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrew Simon<\/a>, chief AI and innovation officer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, speaking to Law.com about the firm\u2019s new AI-focused 1L summer program, as reported by the ABA Journal<\/a>. Weil is also reportedly weighing a potential wind-down<\/a> after merger talks fell through<\/a> and partner departures mounted<\/a>. For prospective students, the more pressing question may be whether Weil will still be there this summer to welcome them to the program.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post Weil\u2019s New AI Summer Program Has One Small Problem: Weil\u2019s Future<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe that to be a great lawyer that is AI-enabled someone needs to have deep technical history. Anyone who wants to learn this stuff\u2014sufficient enough to be an advanced AI builder as a lawyer\u2014can do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrew Simon<\/a>, chief AI and innovation officer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, speaking to Law.com about the firm\u2019s new AI-focused 1L summer program, as reported by the ABA Journal<\/a>. Weil is also reportedly weighing a potential wind-down<\/a> after and partner departures mounted<\/a>. For prospective students, the more pressing question may be whether Weil will still be there this summer to welcome them to the program.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I don\u2019t believe that to be a great lawyer that is AI-enabled someone needs to have deep technical history. Anyone who wants to learn this stuff\u2014sufficient enough to be an advanced AI builder as a lawyer\u2014can do so. \u2014 Andrew Simon, chief AI and innovation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}